Living Freedom Archive

The word freedom carries a lot of strange and uneasy feelings. I want to invent a new word to express this feeling, this way of being, this way of thinking and interacting that is untouchable by the sickness of the human race.
I think to myself, how did we get here? How did we […]

Freedom is a vision that should be achieved in personal, social and international context.
On all these levels freedom means more than the mere absence of physical freedom. An all encompassing understanding of freedom always contains human rights, social justice and maintaining the natural environment.
Such a freedom can be obtained by practicing compassion, honesty and nonviolence.
Let […]

I am an artist,
humanitarian, mother,
wife, daughter, neighbor,
grandchild, sister, movie buff, gardener, flower arranger, (and sender) wine enthusiast, friend and confident, fashion seeker,
stranger (hopefully kind and considerate to most,)
aspiring chef, photographer, producer, collaborator, curious mind (who loves discovering new perspectives,via books, the internet, media, other artists, encounters, etc) and ultimately, […]

Freedom is the most precious thing to me.
I experience it as the garden in which love grows.
When I feel free I feel joyful,
and spontaneous feelings to reach out in caring, creative,
and sensitive ways to others without separation naturally arise.
Freedom has many dimensions.
There’s relative freedom and ultimate freedom;
inner freedom and outer freedom;
freedom to … freedom from […]

Throughout my life I’ve believed many things. Some things, the dogma of church and country, I believed because I was told to. Other things I desperately wanted to believe.
Over time, I slowly began to examine my beliefs, picking up each one and holding it against my experience to see if it belonged, like testing colors […]

“This is the true joy of Life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one…the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
~George Bernard Shaw
Freedom is choosing to answer […]

During my senior year at Harvard, two weeks from graduation, I walked into the room of a friend who lived down the hall. He was knee deep in backpacking and mountaineering gear. I asked him what his plans were after graduation. (Most of us were already slotted to go to med school, law […]

We are born free, live free, and we will die free. Nothing that Humanity or Society can do to us, can take away our personal freedom and dignity.
We are liberated from the dogma and doctrines of oppressive regimes and dictatorships by our Oneness with the Eternal Truth and The Eternal Source that we originate from.
When […]